1. Product Costing and Manufacturing Accounting Implementation Guide
  2. Understanding the Costed Routing Inquiry Program

Understanding the Costed Routing Inquiry Program

Use the Costed Routing/Process Inquiry program (P30208) to review the summarized costs of an item for each operation in the routing.

This information supports effective control of production costs. For example, you can:

  • Identify the work center that is responsible for an operation.

  • Determine whether a work center performs multiple operations.

  • Display simulated or frozen costs for labor values for cost methods.

  • Calculate the totals for all costs by cost categories.

This program calculates the cost that is associated with an operation by multiplying the routing hours by the work center rates for those operations with valid effective dates.

The program can accumulate purchase costs for up to 500 components on each bill of material. Components beyond 500 are not included in the costing process.

Note: If you update the routing for an item, the changes are reflected in the Costed Routing/Process Inquiry program. To display changed costs on the Enter Cost Components form as well, you must run the cost simulation again. Otherwise, the values on the Enter Cost Component form might differ from those on the Work with Costed Routing/Process Inquiry form.

(Release 9.2 Update) The Costed Routing Inquiry program uses the master routing for the item from the Routing Master table (F3003) if the following conditions are met:

  • The Master Routings option on the Manufacturing Constants Revisions form (W3009B) is selected for the branch.

  • The parent item has a cross-reference item defined for master routing.

    You must define the cross-reference item with a cross-reference type of MR and leave the Address field blank.

  • You have defined an item routing for the cross-reference item.

  • You have specified a branch/plant value for the parent item.

  • The parent item and the cross-reference item must exist in the same branch/plant.

The system checks for a cross-reference for an item in the branch/plant. If it finds a cross-reference, the program uses master routing. If it does not find a cross-reference, the system uses the routing defined for the parent item and checks the next item in the branch/plant for a cross-reference. The absence of any cross-reference items in the same branch as the parent items implies that master routing does not exist for the selected branch/plant.